ElfEmber
New Member
Hi all!
I just got finished reading a great story by Tillie Olsen in my modern fiction class. The story "Tell Me a Riddle" is written in an experimental way, but the story itself is so realistic that I felt as if I was there with the characters the whole time! Its about an older couple who's children are grown up and moved away. The couple fight all the time and it makes the reader wonder if they really cared about each other at all. However, the wife ends up with cancer and the husband watches her die, it was incredibly moving.
Has anyone else read this story or any of her others?
Thanks!
I just got finished reading a great story by Tillie Olsen in my modern fiction class. The story "Tell Me a Riddle" is written in an experimental way, but the story itself is so realistic that I felt as if I was there with the characters the whole time! Its about an older couple who's children are grown up and moved away. The couple fight all the time and it makes the reader wonder if they really cared about each other at all. However, the wife ends up with cancer and the husband watches her die, it was incredibly moving.
Has anyone else read this story or any of her others?
Thanks!